November 10, 2009

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The sunshine group MAPLight.org did some data crunching on the House vote and found that:

House members voting 'No' received, on average, 33% more from health insurance industry interests than those voting 'Yes.' Health insurance industry interests gave an average of $16,868 in campaign contributions to each Representative voting against passage of the health care reform bill compared with an average of $12,662 given to each Representative voting for the health care reform bill.

Of course, it's rather Pollyanna to assume that members voted "no" solely because they received campaign cash from the health industry, particularly when supporters of reform also received a good chunk of change. But what it does illustrate, once again, is the inordinate amount of money that the industry spends to make sure they get heard.

The group used contribution reports from January 2003 to June 2009 and excluded presidential campaigns from their averages.

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I have been a medical doctor for over 25 years and know many, many doctors. None of them belong to the AMA anymore. The media doesn't tell this to the readers most of whom still think because it is a "medical" association and "American" it represents what most doctors think. It doesn't. End of story. Instead it's endorsement with being used by Obama as propaganda.